Perhaps considering that most of the money saved at home was earned by Ding Yun, Wu Hua, after days of deliberation, finally discussed with Ding Yun whether the money could be used to buy a job.
She also stated that once she had a job, she would save most of the money and try to accumulate enough before Ding Yun's wedding.
Then, she would take it all as dowry when she left.
Ding Yun naturally had no objection to this, as she never thought it was a good thing for women to be full-time housewives. Although, from the current situation, buying a job with this money was far less lucrative than doing business with the prevailing wind.
But she never expected to become a rich second generation by herself, so she was indifferent. Buy it if you want.
Thus, she readily agreed with joy.
Next, naturally, it was time to look for a job.
Overall, buying a job now was much easier than in the past. In the past, if you wanted to buy a job, money was secondary; the most important thing was the household registration. Forget about non-local household registration; even rural household registration generally didn't qualify to buy a job.
Even if bought, there was no way to transfer the job.
Fortunately, policies had relaxed in recent years, with people flocking to work in other places. The requirements for permanent jobs were not as strict as before, as long as one was not a foreigner. So, Wu Hua also caught a good time.
There were many more job options to choose from.
After considering factors such as future career prospects and the possibility of bankruptcy and layoffs, Wu Hua finally spent 3,800 yuan to buy a job as a salesperson in a state-owned department store, and could start working anytime.
As for the original salesperson, the reasons for selling her job were, firstly, that she was getting old, and secondly, her children did not want to take over the job.
They all had their own jobs.
Most importantly, she was extremely unaccustomed to the requirements promoted by the authorities nowadays, which involved smiling at customers and treating them as gods. In the past, some department stores even had signs prohibiting the beating of customers. Only salespeople could give customers a cold shoulder.
Never were customers expected to give salespeople a cold shoulder.
She had been giving customers a cold shoulder for decades, and a few sentences promoted by the authorities about smiling at customers wouldn't change that. She couldn't stand it.
She received countless complaints.
She had fought with customers many times.
Due to the impact, the manager had already considered persuading her to retire. These factors, combined, made her willing to sell her salesperson job, which many still considered desirable.
After Wu Hua bought the job and completed the procedures, she naturally wouldn't be as arrogant as the previous salesperson. Although she wouldn't be overly submissive, she was certainly more polite.
And after half a month of training,
She gradually adapted to her current job.
Her daily work could even be described as leisurely.
After all, department stores were no longer as busy as they used to be. Outside, there were both street vendors and small shops and supermarkets selling goods. People no longer had to buy certain items only at department stores as before. There were plenty of places outside to buy them, with more variety and possibly even cheaper prices.
Added to this was the poor service attitude here.
There were no discounts at all.
It was only natural that business was poor.
It was hard to say how long it would last, but Ding Yun didn't deliberately bring it up. Whether it lasted for three years or five years, at least for these three to five years, her mother would have a job to pass the time and interact with society.
It was better than staying at home, doing nothing but housework, and only interacting with neighborhood gossip.
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As for Ding Yun, she was already tired of junior high, high school, and even university. After all, she had no regrets in this regard, and she was basically proficient in all knowledge. Attending classes every day was truly agonizing for her.
Therefore, after Wu Hua's job stabilized,
She began to seek ways to skip grades.
From fourth grade directly to sixth grade to enter junior high, and then from the first year of junior high to the third year to enter high school. In just three years, she successfully enrolled in the third year of high school at the age of fourteen.
There was no way around it; skipping from fourth grade directly to the third year of high school was not allowed here. The transition from sixth grade to junior high and the high school entrance examination from the third year of junior high required procedures, which were quite time-consuming.
If it weren't for not wanting to disappoint Wu Hua,
Ding Yun would have stopped studying long ago. After all, she lacked neither the means to make money nor knowledge and culture.
Attending school for her was purely a waste of time.
The reason she was still in the third year of high school was that since she had reached the third year, she might as well take the college entrance examination again. If she became the top scorer in the liberal arts college entrance examination and then gave up admission, people would only think she was capable and simply didn't want to study, rather than being unable to get in and being forced to drop out.
Getting admitted but refusing to attend and not enrolling were two entirely different concepts.
However, although Ding Yun planned this, she did not inform the school or her mother in advance. Instead, she participated in the college entrance examination as usual, obtained her score report as usual, and then confronted her mother, Wu Hua.
The process was, of course, not entirely smooth.
Both the school and Wu Hua found it incredible and incomprehensible, and repeatedly tried to persuade her. Even her elder sister, whose original name was Ding Zhaodi and who had now changed her name to Ding Gui, advised her that it was too much of a pity to give up university and education with such good results.
However, Ding Yun's attitude was very firm.
She presented the income statements from the past few years and the royalties of over 800,000 yuan she had recently received from the publication of a fairy tale, stating that attending university was purely a waste of time and that she could learn anything she wanted to by herself, without necessarily needing to study in a classroom.
In the end, no one could persuade Ding Yun. Her choice was even reported in the newspaper. For a time, some people thought her choice was reasonable, while others believed she was promoting the idea that education is useless. Meanwhile, the sales of the fairy tales she had published surged.
At this point, Ding Yun finally felt a sense of freedom from constraints and escape from a cage. She immediately took the money she had saved over the years, which she had not given to her mother, and officially began her entrepreneurial plans.
Ding Yun had thought very clearly. In this world, although the golden finger she had drawn was very effective, it was difficult for her to expand her influence through it. After all, she couldn't turn all the men in the world into women, or all the women into men.
She could not become world-famous by opening a transformation hospital.
Therefore, she could only set aside the so-called golden finger for the time being and honestly imitate her previous path, starting businesses and gradually expanding into various industries to increase her influence. As long as the money earned was sufficient, and her influence was still insufficient, she could also increase it by spending money on promotional activities.
This was what Ding Yun thought and planned.
And this was what she did.
Moreover, her entrepreneurial development this time was much easier than before. After all, this time she caught up with the great opportunity of national development, riding the east wind and becoming a pig flying on the wind. It was difficult to fail!
In just ten years, she successfully became a domestic light industry giant. More than half of the products in major supermarkets were from Ding Yun's subsidiaries.
The next ten years were spent expanding industries externally,
And then moving towards the internet.
She not only became an international light industry giant but also successfully entered the ranks of international giants in the internet sector.
Excluding hidden behemoths,
She was undoubtedly the richest person in the world.